In conclusion:

Apr 13, 2005 10:22

This experiment has sucessfully demonstrated the necessity of actually reading the instructions rather than winging it, since finding out that one needed to run an NMR spectra several weeks after binning the sample may be considered an error.

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nickys April 13 2005, 02:47:29 UTC
ouch.

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rasilon_x April 13 2005, 03:07:26 UTC
I tend to view experimental failures as a chance to break the monotony of writeups and inject a little humour.

"Whilst the final result may differ from the literature value by five orders of magnitude, this results from an error of only a factor of two in the actual experiment. This is actually quite good for an experiment involving ions."

"Since I was the only person in the lab who got enough coherent results to even try drawing the graph, I'm not that concerned that my straight line is actually a curve. I'm fairly sure that the literature results appear somewhere on it. Feel free to take your pick."

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rasilon_x April 13 2005, 07:25:05 UTC
My actual conclusion was:
"My primary conclusion from this experiment is that I should read the instructions better, and plan better so that I actually carry out the whole experiment. I can surmise that the reaction occurred sucessfully since the products seem to match those expected."

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imagesandwords April 13 2005, 09:44:16 UTC
*grins*

I remember chemistry...

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